VU22597 - Locate health and medical information

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills and knowledge:

• simple terminology and expressions related to human anatomy, health, injuries, ailments and symptoms;
• spoken and written language and expressions related to accessing health support and services;
• a limited range of simple personal singular pronouns, simple possessive adjectives;
• question forms;
• simple paralinguistic features, such as body language;
• intonation of questions, statements and commands;
• use of pronunciation, stress and intonation which is generally intelligible with high frequency words in familiar, supportive contexts, and;
• numeracy skills such as basic measurements, quantities and frequency related to information on medicine labels.